{"title":"Nev March","description":"NEV MARCH is the winner of the Minotaur Books\/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for her award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. Leaving a long career in business analysis in 2015, she returned to her passion, writing fiction. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Crime Writers of Color. A Parsee Zoroastrian herself, Nev lives with her husband and sons in New Jersey.","products":[{"product_id":"the-silversmiths-puzzle-a-mystery-hardcover","title":"The Silversmith's Puzzle: A Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptain Jim\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAgnihotri and Lady Diana Framji return to India as they investigate a murder amidst colonial Bombay's complex hierarchy in March's fourth mystery.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1894 colonial India, Lady Diana's family has lost their fortune in a global financial slump, but even worse, her brother Adi is accused of murder. Desperate to save him from the gallows, Captain Jim and Lady Diana rush back to Bombay. However, the traditional Parsi community finds Jim and Diana's marriage taboo and shuns them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dying words of Adi's business partner, a silversmith, are perplexing. As Captain Jim peels back the curtains on this man's life he finds a trail of unpaid bills, broken promises, lies and secrets. Why was the silversmith so frantic for gold, and where is it? What awful truth does it represent? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in lush, late-Victorian India, Captain Jim and Diana struggle with the complexities of caste, tradition, and loyalty. Their success and their own lives may depend on Diana, who sacrificed her inheritance for love. Someone within their circle has the key to this puzzle. Can she find a way to reconnect with the tight community that threw them aside?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103202840799,"sku":"9781250348036","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3wMJSC5Gw_9781250348036.webp?v=1781090481"},{"product_id":"the-spanish-diplomats-secret-a-mystery-paperback","title":"The Spanish Diplomat's Secret: A Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Diplomat's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-century world of the transatlantic voyage, one passenger's secret at a time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaptain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see Jim. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the captain discovers that Jim is an investigator, he pleads with Jim to find the killer before they dock in Liverpool in six days, or there could be international consequences. Aboard the beleaguered luxury liner are a thousand suspects, but no witnesses to the locked-cabin crime. Jim would prefer to keep Diana safely out of his investigation, but he's doubled over, seasick. Plus, Jim knows Diana can navigate the high society world of the ship's first-class passengers in ways he cannot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, using the tricks gleaned from their favorite fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, Jim and Diana must learn why one man's life came to a murderous end.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104388223199,"sku":"9781250855084","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/i71xBs-BpU9781250855084.webp?v=1781108198"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nev-march.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}